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Could someone explain the title's summary? Surely D3 is the D3-based library for building custom charts and graphs?
by flog 14y ago
Could someone explain the title's summary? Surely D3 is the D3-based library for building custom charts and graphs?
- gawker 14y agoIn a sense, yes. D3 is at a lower level - basically taking any DOM element and mapping it to data. It doesn't have to be a chart or a graph. It could be a list of items or a table. The library provided is more or less give some data and you get a chart.
- sanderjd 14y agoI looked into using D3 for making typical x-y line and bar charts and found that it required significantly more custom work than HighCharts. My take-away from the experience was that D3 is great for very custom visualizations, but if you want to do something simpler, it is worth looking for libraries that do only that simpler thing well.
- theshadow 14y agoUsing D3 for simple straightforward graphs (ie. where you just wanna throw some data in and get a generic graph out) is like using Rails for a simple 1 page static html site.